Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi today charged RJD-Congress combine with having "cheated the backward classes" of the state while claiming to champion their cause.
"The RJD and the Congress do their politics in the name of the OBCs but in reality they have always cheated the backward classes. The Congress government at the Centre never had the courage to implement recommendations of the report of Kaka Kalelkar Commission tabled in 1953", he said.
"When the Janata Party government assumed power in the country, the Mandal Commission was formed in 1977. But successive Congress governments kept its report in cold storage. Recommendations of the Mandal Commission saw the light of the day only after V P Singh formed a government with the BJP's support", the senior BJP leader said.
The Bihar Deputy CM was addressing a function organized at the state BJP headquarters on the eve of the birth anniversary of former Chief Minister and OBC stalwart Karpoori ...

Dravida Kazhagam would make the "non-implementation" of Mandal Commission recommendation for 27 per cent reservation for backward classes in government jobs a nation-wide issue, its general secretary K Veeramani said.
Quoing some reports, Veeramani told reporters here today that only 12 to 14 per cent government jobs were given to backward classes.
He said that Dravida Kazhagam wanted appointment of people belonging to all castes as priests in temples in Tamil Nadu as was done in Kerala.

Going beyond the Dalit-Muslim combination, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Friday sought the support of the members of the other backward classes (OBCs) and asked them to side with her party to get rid of exploitation and fight against the BJP.
She projected the BJP as an "anti-OBC" party, while claiming that the Mandal Commissions recommendations were implemented for OBC reservation because of the BSP.
Mayawati said her party had launched an agitation to get the recommendations of the Mandal Commission implemented for the OBC reservation during the Congress governments rule, while pointing out that the Congress regime had not implemented them and lost the polls in 1989.
Subsequently, the V P Singh government had implemented the recommendations, as per the BSPs demand, she added.
"The BJP is trying to create an impression in the country that the BSP is against OBC reservation, but the fact is that the BSP played an important role in getting the recommendations of the Mandal Commission ...

The Supreme Court today agreed to consider whether its 11-year-old judgement dealing with the issue of application of the ‘creamy layer’ for reservation to SC and ST categories in promotion in govern...

Reopening the debate on the application of “creamy layer” for reservations for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in government jobs, the Supreme Court on Tuesday referred the question to a...

BJP general secretary Bhupendra Yadav, who as a Rajya Sabha member had headed the select parliamentary committee on the Other Backward Classes (OBC) Bill, says that corruption and the love of dynasty ...

The Union Cabinet has approved a proposal to set up a panel to examine sub-categorisation of the socially and educationally Other Backward Castes (OBCs).
It also gave nod to enhance the annual income ceiling for the OBC creamy layer category from the current Rs 6 lakh to Rs 8 lakh.
The stratification of the OBC quota could lead to a quota within quota in OBC reservations, in a move that may have far-reaching impact on national politics.
This could affect educationally and socially advanced communities within the backward classes like the Yadavs, who have benefited from the policy of positive discrimination brought by the Mandal Commission recommendation over the past three decades.
The move to enhance the annual income ceiling would increase the existing number of beneficiaries of various government programmes and schemes including, 27% quota in education and employment under the non-creamy layer OBC category.
The Cabinet approved the two proposals at its meeting here on Wednesday.
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New Delhi, August 23In a decision with abundant electoral possibilities, the Narendra Modi-led union cabinet on Wednesday approved setting up of a commission to examine whether sub-quotas need to be created for the marginalized castes in the central list of the Other Backward Classes (OBCs). This sub-quota would be constituted within the existing 27 per cent reservation for socially and educationally backward classes. The cabinet also increased the creamy layer ceiling for the OBC category to Rs 8 lakh per annum from the existing Rs 6 lakh for central government jobs.Briefing reporters after the cabinet meeting, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said 11 states, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Jharkhand, Puducherry, Karnataka, Bihar, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Jammu region in Jammu and Kashmir, already have such categorisation in state government jobs. There is no sub-categorisation in the central list. The proposed commission will examine the extent of inequitable ..

"Baat Niklegi Toh", a play presented by filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, will open in the capital city next week. A story of tale of hardship, strife and love, it features Imran Zahid, Bhumika Singh and Akshita Sharma.

Coming down heavily on the BJP-led central government, leaders of various opposition parties on Saturday called for a united fight against communalism and fascism that is trying to divide the country while paying encomiums to DMK President M.Karunanidhi.